Thought old GW would have been part of the deal to buy the Rangers, maybe not.

Commissioner of Baseball after Bud? 12 Days till pitchers and catchers report by the way.

Like or hate hi political actions of inactions, G.W. is and continues to be a good and decent man who I believe, like Reagan, always put America and Americans first above all else.
With each passing day, i think that more and more Americans are looking back and reflecting on the goodness of G.W. and recognizing above statement.
I hope that that billboard is lighted for the night drivers. Would love to see a few more of them scattered across the fruited plains.

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As bad as Obamao is, four (or eight) more years of a RINO in the presidency would be worse. RINOs will get us to the same place as Progressives, only slower.

They each are for high taxes, bigger government, less freedom.

If this country is going marxist, then I’d rather it take place while under the control of the democrats. And with the speed that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi want to move the country in that direction, it’s more likely to cause a revolution among the people, either political or otherwise. The RINOs in the long run will get us there in their own time. (The boiled frog analogy).

Just my 2cents worth.

Not to be all nitpicky, but I-35 doesn’t go through Wyoming…it starts in Duluth, MN and runs south to Corpus Christi, TX.

I do like the billboard, though. Bush wasn’t perfect, but he was certainly better than either of the Democrat alternatives and either choice in 2008. And I agree with the sentiment of W for Commissioner; it seems almost ideally suited to him.

And there is no reason to apologize for it. Like W, I’ll stand my ground. I’m not one for groupthink and I dont care for fairweather friends. Underated POTUS who will get his due in time.

Just sayin’

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terrible president domestically, visionary, if flawed, on foreign policy (though not as flawed as his critics make him out to be). Can’t say I miss him, per say, but I do miss his decency and adult foreign policy.

One of the best videos I’ve seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Fzp2Ur5WU&feature=player_embedded

At least when Slick Willy screwed us from behind, he did it with a smile and a few soothing lies. And then some ice for our fat lip and an aww-shucks apology.

The Obama version is a full-fledged gang-bang complete with brass knuckles, castor oil and the expectation that we’ll be grateful enough to yell: “Thank you, Sir, may I have another?”

Yes, I miss W.

At least W was a CLASS act
and a gentleman

he is proving that even now
When W was President, all we heard from Clinton and the peanut farmer, was Bush bashing

I am sure W would have alot to say about the one that followed in his footsteps, who is not a gentleman
but we do not hear a peep

like I said a classy man
I miss him very much!!

it looks like an anteater with short fur?

there was no more sound bites that went along the lines of, “Bush Sr didn’t finish the job in Iraq,” from the Dhimmicrats.

Who would of known that there aren’t WMDs without 100,000 plus troops there, and no more hand wringing over whether or not they had WMDs.

Why do Republicans have to do all the dirty work?

and knowing that we had a president who had our backs!!!

But the really tragic thing is that with Obama in the White House, I miss Jimmy Carter.

As you can see, we are doing just fine without you! Better than fine!

Health care deform: Dead
Cap-and-trade: Dead
Financial deform: On life support
Mark-to-market: Beaten to a bloody pulp
Economic liberalization: Coming down the pike shortly when we install actual conservatives into higher office

We did all this by ourselves, no thanks to you and your lulling the conservative movement, the Party, and the country to sleep with your leftist poison cloaked as conservatism. By direct comparison, here is what you “gave” us:

Medicare Part D
EPA to regulate CO2 as a pollutant
Sarbanes-Oxley
Mark-to-market
More regulations than I could read in a lifetime, tariffs, Keynesian “stimulus” checks, and bailouts

You are a failure, a self-absorbed little man-child who, on a quest for self-esteem, sought a political office you did not deserve and knew you should not have taken because you were too incompetent to take it. Then, you screwed things up and let your VP, a loyal conservative and public servant, be demonized when, in fact, you had cast him and his superior judgment aside and wrecked the country on your very own. We are cleaning up your mess now, and we will be for years. Don’t think that because some people like you personally, history will not record the nature of your screw-ups. There is no excuse for you.

To the crybaby businessmen in Minnesota who put up the sign: You need to take that smug mug down. Don’t look back in some sort of deranged nostalgia. Bush was the problem, not the solution. Man up! No crying now. We are doing great, we are going to win, we are going to take this country back. Things are working out as they had to. We are going to win. Believe it.

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I’m man enough to take the punch, Wendy, but hear me out first.

GWB made some huge mistakes in trying to please the liberal media. Maybe he just couldn’t take the harassment on his foreign policy. We had a fine economy until 2007, when Nancy and Harry took over Congress. The President doesn’t control the economy. Smart money was scared silly by the electoral turn to the left. Even so, the recession was held off until late in 2008.

I know this. GWB would never betray Israel, or, for that matter Australia if it came to that. I slept more soundly before BHO took over.

One argument I would gladly have with you and all of RedState, if necessary, is on mark-to-market. Somehow, newt and Steve Forbes convinced conservatives that it is bad. Wrong! It is honest. Projected cash flow accounting or other scams are what you expect from Barney the Frank. Honest capitalists don’t pretend their assets are worth more than the marketplace says. Criminal faux capitalists in bed with government care nothing for honor or ethics.

Predictably, he is a repeat offender. Also predictable, the Left is defending his fraud as a freedom of speech issue.

http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/02/bg-mcsoulpatch-arrested-by-fbi.html

It appears that only Wendy and I are the only commenters that think that GWB created an environment which practically destroyed the Republican party.

I’d like to add another comment that no one has mentioned that seems to dispute the argument that at least Bush was an “honest” president. I’m not so sure.

During the campaign against Gore, he campaigned enthusiastically for school vouchers. No doubt, to get the conservative, evangelical vote. It worked. I strongly supported him, thinking that he was being honest about that issue. A lot of my church friends did too. We worked and voted for him.

After the election, what happened to school vouchers. The same as BHO’s transparency with health care.

Also, his teaming up with John McCain on the illegal amnesty issue seemed to be a clear betrayal of conservative principles. His wanting to be liked led to an environment where the libs hated him, and the conservatives felt abandoned. Result: McCain becomes the nominee and the rest is history.

This issue can be boiled down to this question: Which is worse in the long run, a radical marxist such as Obamao or a so-called moderate Republican, such as GWB, Ford, GHWB, etc. ?

I submit that if you give it a few minutes of thought and study of history, the answer is easy. A left leaning Republican allows the dems to get part of their agenda. They may act like they’re not happy about the situation, but in the end, their agenda is moved forward.

At the same time, the conservative agenda is not pursued, and so the bottom line is that the status quo is moved leftward.

This also has the result that the left’s program, whether a senior prescription drug program, OSHA, or whatever, if it doesn’t work, will be blamed on the republican, because he was president when it was adopted.

The dems incrementally achieve their goals without any accountability, or resistance from the republicans.

On the other hand, BHO, being the radical that he is, immediately alerts the country to his marxist ways, and opposition is galvanized. His agenda, other than the appointment of judges, is laid bare for what it is.

So in the long run, the moderate republican will result in the marxist eventually prevailing. It may take years, decades, generations, but the result is the same as if Obama had achieved it himself.

This, of course, would not be the case if the moderates had the will to in return for agreeing to the libs agenda, that one of their programs was abolished in return. Such as the elimination of the dept of education or energy, But that never happens. We all know that history proves, like Reagan said, that the closest thing to immortality on earth, is a federal program. So the country incrementally moves to the left, and never stops moving that way.

My hope is that Obama may demonstrate to the average person that this leftward drift has to stop. And no thanks to the moderate Republicans who seem to be only interested in getting elected, re-elected, walking across the aisle to his democrat friends, and just getting along.

I, for one, don’t believe that Pelosi and Reid should be our friends. They’re out to destroy this country as we know it, and Idon’t believe that comity with them gets us very far in stopping them.

and I was looking for an idea for a new Strip!

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I’m just pointing out that in the long run, a moderate republican as president will cause more harm in office than Obama.

Obama’s agenda will be stopped, hopefully with this fall’s election. And other than the harm that his appointment of judges will bring to the country, he will neutered.

If McCain had been elected, the harm that he would cause would go on for years, and would likely be permanent.

I think that the beauty of the Tea Party movement is that a lot of average, non-political people are finally figuring out that there’s not a dimes worth of difference is the democrats or republicans, and a drastic change is in order. The radical dems and the moderate republicans need to go.

Surely you’re not suggesting that McCain would have been better in the long run for this country than Obama. Like I said, Obama’s agenda will be stopped. His marxist agenda is so radical and clearly visible that he will be able to be stopped, hopefully, now that some of the republicans in congress have found their voice.

McCain’s liberal agenda would not have been stopped. The Republicans in Congress, like they did with Bush, kept quiet, while the leftward drift was promoted by Bush, and the libs in Congress.

It took the popularity of the Tea Party movement and commentators like Rush to speak out against the Obama agenda. It certainly wasn’t the Republican leadership.. Have you forgotten what scorn was heaped on Rush when he brazenly stated that he hoped that Obama’s agenda would fail.. You didn’t hear that kind of talk in Congress among McConnell or Boehner. They were too concerned about being popular, or being seen as obstacles to what they perceived to be a popular president.

If McCain had been elected, we would already have illegal amnesty, some sort of universal healthcare which would include all illegals, and some, but maybe not as much as Obama’s, stimulus spending. The crossing of the aisle to come up with a bi-partisan solution to problems with his friends would have been nauseating.

I personally would rather see Obama’s agenda stopped cold, than McCain’s agenda to go on for eight years.

regarding what McCain would do. But we know what position McCain has on these issues. He’s for illegal amnesty, he voted for the bailout, and he believes, like Bush, in the so-called compassionate conservatism.

We also know from history that Republicans will not battle their own party’s president on any issues. They’ll quietly adopt whatever the president wants.

So you don’t have to be a phophet to predict what McCain would do.

I don’t understand your putting so much value in having moderate republicans in congress. For instance, apparently Lindsey Grahm (?spelling) and John Kerry and in discussions to come up with a version of cap and trade as a solution to global warming. I don’t think that this be-partisanship does anything but harm this country. It gives people the idea that republicans believe in man made global warming, and that government has a role in solving the problem. It lends credibility to Pelosi and Reid.

Like Rush says, the republicans answer to the dems agenda should not be maybe or no, it should be hell no.

McCain also is for closing Gitmo. We just don’t know where he would put the prisoners, probably not Illinois. Maybe let Joe Arpao take care of them in Phoenix.

McCain thinks that waterboarding or other inconvenient types of questioning is torture. He doesn’t want to offend the Muslims.

So on these two issues, no difference.

Neither of them believe in any real kind of airport, or aircraft security. In my opinion, until we start profiling for young, middle eastern men and women, we’re doomed to fail in that area.

It appears that both Bush and Obama were and are totally unwilling to stop either North Korea and Iran from going nuclear. They both like to talk about UN sanctions. I’ll bet they’re really scared.

My opinion is that Bush and now Obama were (are) not willing to wipe out islamic fascism. I don’t believe that Islam is a religion of peace, as Bush and Obama have said. They’re at war with us, and we’re more interested in not offending them.

The Fort Hood assassin moved up the ranks during Bush.
Political correctness in both parties prevent us from taking any real action against Muslims to stop their eventual control over our culture. They’re getting awfully close to becoming majorities in Western Europe, and there’s no reason to think that the same thing won’t happen here if given enough time. They seem to be very efficient about having a lot of kids, they have no interest in adopting our culture, and they’re very serious about wiping out everyone who is not a Muslim.

The bottom line is that unless both parties change their attitude toward Islam, our traditional culture, in the long run, is in deep trouble.

I hope that it doesn’t take a nuclear weapon going off here to wake people up, but I’m afraid that is the case.

No, I don’t think that McCain and Obama are the same.

Obama, in my opinion, is a Muslim. There are too many clues that he has revealed that indicate that his loyalties are to Islam. Obviously, that is incredibly dangerous for our security.

On the other hand, McCain is an unknown. I would like to think that he would be tougher to protect our national interests, but his willingness to negotiate (walk across the aisle) also scares me.

If I had to choose between the two, I would of course pick McCain, but I don’t have the confidence that I would have in an Eisenhower or Reagan.

My choice to best protects us is a person who really loves this country, wants to retain its traditional values and culture, and is not concerned with political correctness. Joe Arpao comes to mind.

For a great essay on the danger posed to our country by Islamic fascists, this is a great read.

http://www.icjs-online.org/index.php?article=1414